Re: Debian non-free-firmware policy making OS misleading and Free Software unfriendly

2024-04-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
g going, buddy. Until he sets up a real MUA, I doubt the formatting will improve. I endure this on many other mailing lists unrelated to Debian, particularly from groups.io that have a Web interface. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. Th

Re: What use can i give to linux?

2024-04-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
m to achieve their goals no matter what it is. You and your colleagues may well each be in one of those categories. Most of the time the platform is dictated by the application(s) a user wants to run. Sometimes the platform is dictated by ego. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims tha

Re: NextGov: Linux XZ Utils Backdoor Was Long Con, Possibly With Support

2024-04-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
by project maintainers? I suspect that at a minimum if a maintainer doesn't clearly understand a patch then it won't get applied, but if the maintainer is clever enough to work in a non-obvious patch that is malicious, all bets are off. It's a mess. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we liv

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-04-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2024 01 Apr 23:41 -0500, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 03:19:18PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2024 01 Apr 14:01 -0500, Andy Smith wrote: > > [...] > > > Until now, who anticipated this? I'm sure there are security > > resear

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-04-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
a VCS tag and a release tarball, and somehow verifying the identity of contributors/committers. I'm sure other ideas are being discussed that I've not read. Suffice it to say, at the moment this is not being swept under the proverbial rug. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-04-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2024 01 Apr 14:01 -0500, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 03:33:37AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > From what I have read, lzma is not a direct dependency of openssh. It > > turns out that it lzma is a dependency of libsystemd and that > > re

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-04-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
ittle bit more skeptical about anyone requesting to take over the project unless that person is a known member of an already long established project. Not an easy situation for project maintainers and the community to fix. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all

Re: shellcheck, bashism's and one liners.

2024-03-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
bash for my login shell. I've used shellcheck to point me in the right direction and figure that if dash runs the script without errors then it's close enough to POSIX compatible for my needs. I don't anticipate my scripts needing to run on some ancient Unix shell. - Nate -- "The opt

Re: rec recording, Re: Upgrade to Bookworm, now GNOME keyring dies …

2024-02-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2024 21 Feb 12:42 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 19 Feb 2024 at 13:26:17 (-0600), Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > After seeing this twice this morning I recalled that I have a cron entry > > to kill the 'rec' program. This was to break up audio files into hou

Re: Upgrade to Bookworm, now GNOME keyring dies--no access to stored SSH key passwords

2024-02-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
er processes. I certainly hope this is resolved. OTOH, it forced me to recall a number of passwords! 藍 - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB

Re: hexchat being discontinued?

2024-02-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
cluded utility called "groffer" will be removed. To keep it I will copy it over from the cloned groff repository I have locally. Sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do... - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2024 04 Feb 11:57 -0600, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 4 Feb 2024 11:36 -0600, from n...@n0nb.us (Nate Bargmann): > >> Unicomp[1] still makes these keyboards, and you can get them for USB. > > > > I don't like their swapping of the right Alt and Menu keys unl

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2024 04 Feb 04:23 -0600, hw wrote: > On Fri, 2024-02-02 at 20:09 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > [...] > > I have several of the now classic IBM Model M keyboards I procured in > > the '90s. Modern BIOSes don't like them even with a PS/2 to USB > > a

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
t is loud. It has the same number of keys as the Lenovo, 104, I think. This one was not cheap while the Lenovo was considerably less expensive. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Pro

Re: SOLVED FOR GENE:Re: was: Re: tzdata-legacy [was: Re: systemdandtimezone]

2024-01-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2024 06 Jan 22:27 -0600, gene heskett wrote: > On 1/6/24 17:06, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2024 06 Jan 14:34 -0600, gene heskett wrote: > > > On 1/6/24 14:33, John Hasler wrote: > > > > Try manpages.org . > > > > > > That is d

Re: SOLVED FOR GENE:Re: was: Re: tzdata-legacy [was: Re: systemdand timezone]

2024-01-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
hat I don't see a category for oldstable and oldoldstable, etc. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689

Re: tzdata-legacy [was: Re: systemd and timezone]

2024-01-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
ca/Central without complaint. Yeah, US is a directory and Central is a symlink to ../America/Chicago that could be manually added to a system if need be. Ambles off shaking fist at a cloud... - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The

Re: systemd and timezone

2023-12-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
uld: In Debian releases between Etch and Jessie (inclusive), be good enough? - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
Thanks for the tip. I updated this morning well before any announcements and having seen this I rebooted into the 6.1.0-12 (6.1.52) package. Good thing old kernels are kept around. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist

Re: used vs. unused packages installed

2023-12-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
will be marked for removal and all packages that were automatically installed with it. To reverse the proposed removal action, use 'Ctrl-u'. While I often use apt at the command line, I've been using aptitude since early 2001 and often prefer its TUI for doing drastic things! - Nate -- "The opt

Re: Sunrise and Sunset from terminal

2023-09-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
of 9 Tishrei 5784 sunrise: 07:10 sunset: 19:18 hdate: ALERT: The information displayed is for today's Hebrew date. Because it is now after sunset, that means the data is for the Gregorian day beginning at midnight. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we

Re: Upgrade to Bookworm, now GNOME keyring dies--no access to stored SSH key passwords

2023-09-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2023 14 Aug 21:29 -0500, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 14/08/2023 07:30, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Now, while typing this email all keyring PIDs have vanished! > > It may be a way to minimize RAM usage. I don't think so. It has been persistent in the past in Buster and Bull

Re: Safing.io

2023-08-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
l-challenged sys admin hobbyist. > > Has anyone tried it? It sounds great, even the free version. I've not heard of it, but that's not surprising. I prefer OpenWRT as it is a project similar in the vein of Debian. I shy away from single points of failure if at all possible. - Nate

Re: Please verify Gnome and KDE wiki articles for correctness

2023-08-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2023 26 Aug 07:57 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 07:40:46AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2023 26 Aug 07:13 -0500, Anssi Saari wrote: > > > Nate Bargmann writes: > > > > > > > This Wiki is semi-private in th

Re: Using the bash shell: determine if the root user used 'sudo -i'

2023-08-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
more complex it's much easier to keep one's bearings on where the script is working at various points. As I see it, relative paths are more for interactive shell use. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web

Re: Please verify Gnome and KDE wiki articles for correctness

2023-08-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2023 26 Aug 07:13 -0500, Anssi Saari wrote: > Nate Bargmann writes: > > > This Wiki is semi-private in that editing is not open to just everyone > > but may only be done through an account (apparently I have one and now > > have to figure out how to reset my passwor

Re: Please verify Gnome and KDE wiki articles for correctness

2023-08-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
welcome and desired. In particular solutions are provided on this list that should make it onto the Wiki. I'm not volunteering for that "job" but it is something we might all consider in the future. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible world

Re: Favicon Firefox

2023-08-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
greg greg 6160384 Aug 20 20:18 > .mozilla/firefox/0uik3i3z.default/favicons.sqlite As do my systems. Taking a wild guess, presumably cleaning the cache removed the icon files that the DB is still referencing and not requesting being downloaded. In all likelihood it is safer for the

Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
could see what the exact characters are. In my terminals I have switched to Fira Code, Regular as well as in the GNOME settings. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Proje

Re: is it unusual that 12.1 is released so soon after 12?

2023-08-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
n't force anyone to upgrade. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 signature.a

Re: Happy 30 Years Debian Project

2023-08-16 Thread Nate Bargmann
upgraded and migrated uninterrupted over the intervening years but I did distro hopping yet always came back to Debian and also bumped up to amd64 along the way. Here's to many more anniversaries. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist

Upgrade to Bookworm, now GNOME keyring dies--no access to stored SSH key passwords

2023-08-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
after rebooting the process list looked like this which mirrors the laptop: $ ps ax -u nate | grep "agent\|keyring" 2037 ?SLsl 0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --foreground --components=pkcs11,secrets --control-directory=/run/user/1000/keyring 2151 ?Ssl

Re: Wireless temperature & humidity measurement

2023-07-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
caled Instruments[7]. They carry complete stations for many brands as well as parts. The aforementioned wxforum.net is a good place to seek out better answers to your questions. HTH, - Nate [1] https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?board=59.0 [2] http://weewx.com/ [3] https://www.wunde

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
all collections from many projects. Probably the most dogmatic distributions are Trisquel and Guix but I doubt they have the NIH attitude I sense from OpenBSD. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://w

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
xcise as much GNU from their systems as they can (I don't follow their development closely, it's just the impression I get). - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https:/

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
BSDs have a rightful claim to be true descendants of AT Unix and not clones or derivatives. I also have a hard time calling GNU or Linux "clones" as they are independent work-alike implementations but not bug-for-bug clones of AT Unix or BSD. Pedants R Us... - Nate -- "Th

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
access to Minix, Tanenbaum had no interest in applying the patches Linus, et. al. wanted to apply to make it a more general system. Linus was only interested in a Unix he could afford and since GNU lacked a kernel that is what he focused on. MS was never part of the focus regarding the cre

Re: bookworm upgrade report: boring

2023-06-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2023 14 Jun 03:24 -0500, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-06-13 13:41:23 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I have always chickened out on that option. Looking at the ucf man page > > and the description of the three-way merge it looks like the user would > > have a yes or

Re: bookworm upgrade report: boring

2023-06-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2023 13 Jun 10:01 -0500, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-06-13 06:41:41 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I've been experimenting with Arch Linux for some time and one thing I > > like about its pacman package management system is that it has a tool > > available named 'p

Re: bookworm upgrade report: boring

2023-06-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
's version, note it, and edit it for needed local changes later. I've been bitten by keeping all of my local configs in the past so I don't do that any more. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web

Re: Which Diff tool could I use for visually comparing two text files where Word Wrap is possible?

2023-04-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
I prefer vimdiff. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 signature.asc D

Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian

2023-03-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2023 22 Mar 14:06 -0500, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 05:11:17AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Why have you ruled out a system with an integrated Intel GPU? > > Well, I was trying to see if one could get reasonable hardware that > doesn't have untr

Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian

2023-03-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
. As far as I'm concerned Nvidia is banned from my network. Yes, I do have non-free firmware packages installed. I can't say that they're strictly necessary. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true."

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
d envelope templates for US #10 and #6 3/4 written in raw roff requests that I use for printing such documents. I also edit these files in Vim and find this to be a fast and relatively lightweight way of doing so. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possib

Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.

2023-02-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
It made it easy for me to simply look at the IP address and know there was some connectivity issue for that machine. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N

Re: Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?

2023-01-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
Well, I didn't fix the errors, but I was able to use 'btrfs replace' to move the file system to an external HDD. The SDD I ordered apparently is ping-ponging its way from Kansas City to various area post offices and back again before they get it on the right truck. Sigh... - Nate

Re: Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?

2023-01-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
LIME2). *I* did not choose this filesystem for this application, just to be clear. If there is a better choice for what is intended to be an appliance running from a micro-SD card, then that should be communicated to the Freedom Box people. I have an SSD on order and will rebuild with ext4. - Nate --

Re: Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?

2023-01-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
as the MICRO cannot boot directly to the SSD as far as I know. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6

Re: Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?

2023-01-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2023 12 Jan 08:15 -0600, Dan Ritter wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I have a Freedom Box Pioneer (hardware is an Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 > > unit with a Samsung 128 GB micro-SD card. The micro-SD is partitioned > > into 2GB boot ext2 and the remainder as the ro

Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?

2023-01-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
the system is pretty much useless. All insights appreciated. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C

Re: Python curses

2023-01-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
is an implicit module name prefix but it isn't used since the import command made the module's namespace a part of the program's main namespace. That's how I understand it, at least. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears th

Re: Python curses

2023-01-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
d to normalize the versions of modules with the main interpreter version resulting in an apparent version jump. The curses module should be a rather old and stable module so I would expect it to be fully functional and quite well debugged. > If someone has insights here, I'd be grateful. Loo

Re: Q. re "Software" on new 11.6 Install

2022-12-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
nk "Software" comes from the Gnome Project. Make of that what you will. I use the Gnome desktop but not "Software". Like you I found completely inadequate to my needs but it's installed anyway. I use the Aptitude TUI and apt from the terminal when I don't need the TUI. I do a lot in the

Re: colorscheme in vi

2022-12-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 23 Dec 13:03 -0600, Curt wrote: > On 2022-12-23, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > >> Because there is no colorscheme named "white" in Debian's > >> vim. The colorschemes are in /usr/share/vim/vim82/colors > > > > The problem as I see it is th

Re: colorscheme in vi

2022-12-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
ts reverse colors in 'vi' but edited '.vimrc'. Historically those are two different programs but the Debian alternatives eventually points 'vi' to 'vim.basic'. I would presume that a setting that works in historic 'vi' might not be supported by 'vim.basic'. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims tha

Re: Backing up whole Debian installation from laptop to laptop via ssh?

2022-11-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
www.n0nb.us/blog/2012/11/ghost-a-partition-contents-with-rsync/ - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 B

Re: gspeaker installation

2022-10-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
I got the same error you did on a package I was porting forward some time back. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E6

Re: fetchmail

2022-09-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
0818 pts/0S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto fetchmail which I had just started a few minutes before reading your mail. I do not find any kind of default configuration under /etc. Was one added in Bookworm? - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible w

Re: netperf / MIT License is not open source?

2022-08-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
le branch of Debian :( Even if the package is updated and put into the Free archive, the only way it would make it into Bullseye is if it is uploaded to backports and the user has that repository enabled. Otherwise, at best it will go into Bookworm. At least that is how things usually work out. -

Re: Where do you get Virtualbox

2022-03-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
icy some day? Or that a different corporation will buy the > rights to it, and change the policy that way? I don't know. I have it installed through Bullseye Fast track. I don't follow how packages flow, but they get to fasttrack.debian.net by some means. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
And I have Autosave selected in all my installations of mc so IME, the last one to close writes the file. It's not unusual for me to have half a dozen instances of mc running at once! Sometimes I find I had two or three running in the same terminal session. Oh dear... - Nate -- &qu

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 21 Mar 20:56 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 21 Mar 2022 at 19:34:46 (-0500), Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2022 21 Mar 15:19 -0500, Joe wrote: > > > Probably best try nano unless you're particularly keen on vim. Don't > > > forget that geany is a GUI I

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
editmarked=black,cyan" There may be more parameters available and it has been many years since I found that somewhere on the 'Net and I failed to note the source. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true."

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
which can only be done if all instances of mc are closed. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-16 Thread Nate Bargmann
XAUTHORITY=/run/user/1000/.mutter-Xwaylandauth.B6TFI1 WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0 MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 $ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP GNOME - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: h

Re: Package cvs2cl no more in Debian?

2022-03-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
cvs2cl/ - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
e moving into the desktop world alternating between KDE and Xfce and now Gnome for the most part and my virtual desktop equals the screen size. Gnome calls them "workspaces" and I typically use four per screen. It's default is to create them dynamically but I use a fixed number.

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
u[1] in early 2020 about X history and politics[2]. As I recall (it's been two years since I watched it), much of what you wrote above echos Keith's comments. - Nate [1] https://www.keithp.com/blogs/tags/lca/ [2] https://youtu.be/cj02_UeUnGQ -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 11 Mar 14:06 -0600, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > Interesting as no one uses Wayland or X11 directly but > > through a window manager or quite likely one of the desktop > > environments. > > I don't know, I think it is fair to say

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 11 Mar 14:10 -0600, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > >> No, I understood, but that sounds like too much emulator ... > > > > My understanding is that xwayland is an X server that runs > > under Wayland and the idea is that it handles X

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 11 Mar 07:16 -0600, Christian Britz wrote: > > > On 2022-03-11 12:47 UTC+0100, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > I have used Gnome on Wayland since late 2018. It improved a lot with > > the release of Bullseye. I use this setup on two machines, a laptop and &g

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
ich I can live with (I'm sure the built in Gnome blanker works just fine). My GPUs are stock Intel on board graphics as I don't game nor do I need fancy 3D capability. This hardware is sufficient for displaying the GL screen savers and for whatever compositing requirements Gnome has. HTH - Na

Re: One user system.

2022-02-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
ve just the main user set to do root's work and that root can no longer log in directly. I hope the OP can clarify! - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://githu

Re: Security

2022-01-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
, what is seldom acknowledged is that new releases also bring new and as yet undisclosed bugs that will be fixed next time or the time after or the time after that or... I figure it's a gamble either way and stick with the Debian packages. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 07 Jan 10:26 -0600, Curt wrote: > On 2022-01-07, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > Did you try Shift + Right-click and select "Open Link" or some such in > > your terminal? That is what works for me in Gnome Terminal. > > > > This is what works fo

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
g > the link does not do anything. Is it supposed to send the default browser > to that page? If so, where should I check for the broken linkage? Did you try Shift + Right-click and select "Open Link" or some such in your terminal? That is what works for me in Gnome Terminal. -

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

2021-12-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
etween Mozilla provided binaries and Debian installed packages and have never deleted nor modified ~/.mozilla Perhaps you intended to remove the cache which is found under ~/.cache/mozilla? FF will rebuild it automatically when it is missing. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we li

Re: Emoji fonts in Debian [WAS:] Re: How to NOT automatically mount a specific partition of an external device?

2021-12-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
haracter. > > That's exactly what I look like ;) Close! Going by your avatar I see when browsing the Planet Debian blog feed. :-) In Mutt running in Gnome Terminal I see a square following the face (screenshot attached). - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in

Re: Emoji fonts in Debian [WAS:] Re: How to NOT automatically mount a specific partition of an external device?

2021-11-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
y installed so I guess I got the functionality "for free" by using Gnome. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD4

Re: Emoji fonts in Debian [WAS:] Re: How to NOT automatically mount a specific partition of an external device?

2021-11-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
w that there is keyboard sequence in Gnome Terminal (Ctl-Shift-E then Space) to bring up a menu to select Unicode glyphs.  - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://githu

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
radio transmitters. In other words, this tech should have applicability in network security, to bring it back on topic a bit. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Proje

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
of the RF spectrum, it seems like they would be perfect for the task. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
to be written from scratch as they are probably Turbo C and Soundblaster specific, respectively. Still this would be a very useful tool for those interested in radio frequency (RF) work, especially with a laptop or SBC (Raspberry Pi, etc.). - Nate [1] https://www.qsl.net/n9zia/xmit_id/legal.html [2

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
, does not allow to > send the mail strangely), so everyone can take a look. This app is available > in the web, but a little bit hidden, if you do not know its exactly name. Better would be to send the URL. What CMS is it in, CVS, SVN, something else? I'd be interested in preserving the

Re: aboutdebian.com

2021-11-18 Thread Nate Bargmann
captures from last month show nothing Debian related. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6

Re: why Debian?

2021-11-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
to accomplish their tasks. Fortunately, most of the non-free packages that are needed these days are kernel modules. HTH, - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.co

Re: Man pages for gcc

2021-10-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
y installed, a much better user experience is the 'pinfo' package since it uses Lynx like motion and color highlighting for hyperlinks. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects

Re: Then it happened to me...

2021-10-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
an area where you can help, i.e. the timely dissemination of project news. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41

Re: Then it happened to me...

2021-10-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
st try to do that with the average Web forum, and note that I am no stranger to Web forums. Finally, email lets me use the mail agent and the editor *I* want, not what is dictated by the forum software. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. Th

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
reatly appreciated. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2021 29 Sep 09:47 -0500, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 07:59:50AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > A test run with KDE Plasma shows that performance is acceptable even > > with EXT4 as the file system. I now have some SanDisk Ultra Fit flash > &g

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
d between them. Unfortunately, there are still alleged bugs in BTRFS that give me pause. For my usage they would likely be inconsequential. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: htt

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2021 29 Sep 12:50 -0500, Brian wrote: > On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 11:34:22 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > Thanks, Reco. That is useful to me. > > Your question and Reco's response were also useful to me, if only > because I had not come across F2FS previously. On a USB

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
Thanks, Reco. That is useful to me. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130

"Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

2021-09-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
] (second paragraph). TIA - Nate [1] https://howtos.davidsebek.com/debian-f2fs.html [2] https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#Force_grub-efi_installation_to_the_removable_media_path -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true."

Re: The future of computing.

2021-09-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
has been published since 1915 with a two year break for the Great War from 1917 to 1919. Maybe IBM bought the rights to the name! - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects:

Re: A bug in Vim, in Mate Terminal or in Debian 11?

2021-09-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
check all lines in /etc/skel/.bashrc. It does not show me anything > new. My prompt contains only things that it has, and sometimes different > (skel does not use as many colors as i do, for PS1). My PS1 is very complex (I posted its code here a few weeks back), yet the path when I cd to

Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap

2021-09-16 Thread Nate Bargmann
hat far off if it is assuming the recipient's MUA and MIME handling is configured correctly, which it actually is. I was just a bit annoyed at the end result and now I have it set per my preference. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessi

Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap

2021-09-16 Thread Nate Bargmann
his case, the attachment was assigned the application/octet-stream MIME type by the SourceForge.net Web mailer (at least that is what I gleaned from the headers). - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web:

Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap

2021-09-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2021 15 Sep 14:20 -0500, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 02:01:23PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 12:58:10PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > * On 2021 15 Sep 10:44 -0500, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > >

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